{"product_id":"literacy-with-an-attitude-second-patrick-j-finn-9781438428055","title":"Literacy with an Attitude, Second Edition: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive update of the classic study that delivers both a passionate plea and strategies for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give working-class children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2010 Critics Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe classic, indispensable guide for teachers, parents, and community organizers concerned with educating working-class children, Literacy with an Attitude dares to define literacy as a powerful right of citizenship. Patrick J. Finn persuasively debunks the time-honored paradigm for teaching poor and working-class students. Our job, he argues, is not to help such students to become middle class and live middle-class lives-most don't want it. Education rather should focus on a powerful literacy-a literacy with an attitude-that enables working-class and poor students to better understand, demand, and protect their civil, political, and social rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis tenth-anniversary, second edition features eight new chapters and a revised and updated original text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick J. Finn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438428057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438428055\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2009","brand":"Patrick J. Finn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065577648383,"sku":"9781438428055","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_45d939cb-2dab-4859-8827-abab76558bfa.jpg?v=1768675896","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/literacy-with-an-attitude-second-patrick-j-finn-9781438428055","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}